[TYPO3-hci] Less ways to do it...

[Michael Scharkow]

Hi *,

just a few thoughts about making common tasks easier to solve by 
*removing* stuff from the BE:

1. Remove page types completely (except for sysfolders, see #2), only 
keep page properties. See the various questions about not-in-menu 
pagetype *and* the property hidden-in-menu, or the question whether 
shortcuts can have subtitles, etc. Basically, we should only have pages 
that have certain properties, and those should be nicely arranged in a 
tabbed interface.

2. Make a stricter distinction between pages and sysfolders. It has been 
a best-practice ever since, but it should be enforced strictly: Pages 
contain *only* content records and sysfolders contain all other records 
but no content records. Any ambiguity as to where store stuff should be 
removed.

3. If we follow #2, we can remove the distinction between list and page 
view: Pages default to page view and sysfolders to list view. no need 
for any other options if the functionality (=clipboard and sorting 
mostly) is there.

4. Remove the access module and put it into the page property dialogue 
where it belongs. It's a matter of debate whether we should have a 
"permissions" tab (only relating to BE users) and a "visibility" tab 
(only for FE stuff like start/stop/hidden/fe-group) or a mix of both 
(because a lot of users confuse this). I'd keep BE and FE stuff 
separated though.

5. Remove static templates and all related db tables and columns. They 
are obsolete and have been since 3.6.

Cheers,
Michael